Fred Korematsu Quotes
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I think if you have a funny thought, and you want to get off a funny point, try to do it as realistically as you can. If you try to act it funny and accent the funny points, or do it in a funny style, you kind of lose it.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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I didn't necessarily fit in in high school. I felt very awkward. I still feel completely awkward and weird in my body sometimes. I'm hoping that's going to go away, but I've just embraced it as reality.
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Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
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Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, 'with liberty and justice for all,' and I believed all that.
